| QUILP | Daniel, moneylender in Dickens's The Old Curiosity Shop (5) |
| LITTLENELL | Miss Trent in Dickens's The Old Curiosity Shop (6,4) |
| NELL | Girl in Dickens's "The Old Curiosity Shop" |
| EDWIN | Dickenss The Mystery of ___ Drood |
| DROOD | Dickens's "The Mystery of Edwin ___" |
| SMIKE | Character befriended by Nicholas Nickleby in Dickens's novel (5) |
| ALLEN | Arabella, character in Dickens's Pickwick Papers (5) |
| PARIS | In Dickens's Tale of Two Cities, setting along with London (5) |
| CLARA | First name of David Copperfield's nurse in Dickens's novel (5) |
| TWIST | One in Dickens's novel providing surprise ending (5) |
| FAGIN | Leader of a gang of thieves in Dickens's Oliver Twist (5) |
| GUPPY | A law clerk at Kenge and Carboy in Dickens's Bleak House or, a rainbow-coloured millionfish (5) |
| RAVEN | Grip, in Dickens's 'Barnaby Rudge', e.g. |
| SHYLOCK | Moneylender in "The Merchant of Venice" |
| NUBBLES | Kit, character in the Charles Dickens novel The Old Curiosity Shop (7) |
| DANIEL | Villainous usurer in 1841 Charles Dickens novel The Old Curiosity Shop (6,5) |
| SAMPSONBRASS | The corrupt attorney in The Old Curiosity Shop |
| OPIUMDEN | Drug establishment at the centre of Dickens's The Mystery of Edwin Drood (5,3) |
| MASTERHUMPHREYSCLOCK | Weekly periodical in which the novels The Old Curiosity Shop and Barnaby Rudge were first published |
| LINNET | '[P]oor' bird kept in a cage by Little Nell in Charles Dickens' The Old Curiosity Shop (1841) (6) |
